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Nerds in their basements talk of "fighting men," soldiers in the battle between Good and Evíl. Their games are always set in some magical past, with Kings Arthur and Rings of...
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Some old-school dungeon modules have the bad habit of including secret doors, unspoken trap mechanisms, unpickable locks, and other keyed items that make sense in a certain...
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Here, you'll find some horses for Four Devastating Judgments. It is also where I will put extra HORSE rules, if it comes out that they're needed.Hope-Anew Charger (dull grey)...
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d6 Random Encounters on the way to the Cavern1. The robbers from area 2 (entrance)2. The dangerous animal from area 4 (mountaintop)3. Cloud of locusts. No damage, but will eat...
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If you want to better understand something, take it apart and put it back together.AtticLooking out of the windows, one can see that they are on the second floor of some...
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Inspired in part by https://hexculture.com/2019/12/home-again-home-again.htmlThe empire and the remnants in the cities use golden currency, usually in fragments of golden rods....
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After reading through the second chapter of Legacy of Fire, the House of the Beast, I decided to imitate the inimitable Joseph Manola in his ongoing series condensing...
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See here.SoldierStarts with cruciform sword, a second soldier’s weapon, sundered buckler, stick of yellow chalk, claw hammer, candelabrum torch weapon_notes 1 (Veteran):...
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See here. And here.This is a hack with specific goals: it depicts an exilic state in which all the wealthy and artisan natives have been kidnapped, it fuses dungeoncrawling...
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There are fewer rulebooks that make me feel more conflicted than those for Vampire: the Masquerade. The system is fine, but the ideas are sometimes, to my eyes, at...
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1. Find a random map of a small dungeon. One from an old game you ran, or one of Dyson's Delves.2. Tell the players that the Krampus has stolen all the village children and...Linked by the ring
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Sometimes, you make it to see if you can do it. I wanted to make a generator that would show you the vampire society of a given city with a single click. But in order to do...
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In college, I would attend these "murder mystery parties," day-long affairs where everyone's playing a character trying to solve a murder, but actually mostly to pursue...
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I've been playing some Vampire: the Masquerade, and it's struck me that there seems to be a paucity of online tools to aid Storytellers. To make things easier for myself and...
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I enjoy ecosystem-based encounter tables, but the very best are hard to find. They can be so broad as to lack any evocation of place, as with endless "forest" tables that list...Linked by the ring
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I think people are pretty hungry for simple joys. We don't walk in the woods as often as we like, or eat a hunk of bread in flickering candlelight, or study the play of light...
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Salty Goo, of Gooed GLoG fame, recently produced a "Fantasy Land Generator". It describes a region by hex-size, biome, and notable features, as well as drawing from many...
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In a case of nominative determinism, this piece is by "Chase Stone"Beloved one-page dungeon the Skyblind Spire includes a brief piece of lore-- the impossible architecture of...
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Slimes and puddings are often deployed to great effect as monsters or traps due to their liquid property. But the stakes are too often life or death. Whatever happened to vats...
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(sic)The ancients knew that bear mothers licked their young into shape. (So do dragons by the way, which is how humans force captive dragons to make dragonborn.) The substance...
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I once wrote a list of ten quick, cheap tricks a DM can use in their games. Here's 20 more. Please please please turn this into a trend and write some cheap tricks, publish...Linked by the ring
- GMing Tricks Nick Hendriks
- 15 (more) cheap tricks Rise Up Comus
- Shiny TTRPG links collection #37 Seed of Worlds
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This last week, I ran my first B/X game (OSE) for my spouse and their parents, neither of whom had ever played a roleplaying game before. The experience was a great learning...
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Patrick Stuart and Scrap Princess, auteurs of the independent RPG scene, are kickstarting their latest adventure module, Demon-Bone Sarcophagus. Check it out! Only nine days to...
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Pick a starting arrangementFamously, AD&D had a dungeon generator for its first appendix, allowing you to painstakingly roll up a dungeon corridor by corridor. I have adapted...Linked by the ring
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Click this sentence for the link.HighlightsContinuing in the vein of bronze age folkloric lots.Three attributes: THEWS, LORE, and GRACERoll-under.rephrased defense and based...
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art by Jean-Baptiste Siméon ChardinAdventurers have a romantic view of magi. They are not the usual targets of arcane predation-- they have no children to steal, and if the...Linked by the ring
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BONEPUNK is a beautifully-formatted game in which you play the undead who are exploited in an industrial necromantic society. It is awesome in the "play a giant gorilla...
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This small dungeon-space is at-home almost everywhere. I put it on an abandoned island in Acmori. The inhabitants of the nearby island claim a wizard lives within the...Linked by the ring
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"There is something of the devil in the thief's voice when he boasts, even if his message is nothing but the truth. There is something in the traitor that enflames the heart...
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Secret rule: You can play one of these in any Vain the Sword game you're invited to.art by Daniel Romanovsky“Every new order requires enemies, and must preserve its enemies...